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Example 9-190
Da ʤimi me in ʧaʤ a di hol tiŋ?
Da
top
ʤimi
Jimi
me
ant
in
in
ʧaʤ
charge
a
of
di
the
hol
whole
tiŋ?
thing
Was Jimmy in charge of the whole enterprise?
Comment:
There is no copula here, but the topic particle
da
often appears in initial position in questions.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Escure 1993
: 237
Language:
Belizean Creole
by
Geneviève Escure
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Initial question particle
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